My #FavouriteThing Today – Monday, March 10, 2014

My #FavouriteThing today was coming home from Palm Springs with excitement and drive fuelling me. I spent the entire plane ride working on homework from BSchool, and feeling more driven and invested with every answer I wrote down. And it carries over – I sat here tonight getting other things done so that I could simply cross them off my list, rather than have them hanging over my head for any length of time. Just get it done and move along.

I also loved coming home to clean sheets. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of getting into bed with clean sheets. Thank you, Helen.

And of course, I loved seeing my bubbas after being away for a couple of days. Funny, they would have been at their dad’s regardless, so I still wouldn’t have seen them until afterschool today. But because I was so far away, it seemed like I hadn’t seen them for a lot longer than it had actually been. In any case, I was happy to come home and give each girl a big hug.

What was your favourite thing today?

Share the love:

1 Comment

Rachel Hewton
on March 11, 2014 at 1:01 pm

My Favourite Thing was waking up to find out that my Dad’s former band is being inducted into the Brockville Music Hall of Fame. Dad’s friend, and the singer from that band (as well as another that Dad played in in the 70’s), told my sister the news and reassured her that even though Dad is not with us, and therefore unable to accept the award, when the rest of the band goes up, Ken will make sure that Dad is mentioned. I’m so proud of my Dad. I miss him dearly, and I admit that I cried tears of regret that he is not here to see this, but most of my tears are the happy, proud kind. So many memories flooded back of my Dad. I used to take weekly piano lessons not far from where his band rehearsed, and the band agreed to take a break every night when my lessons ended, so my Dad could pick me up. Then, I would sit in on the rest of the practice. And of course, I thought it was just the most fun to spend a Saturday night watching them play from “backstage”, but of course always minding my father’s instructions not to bug the sound guys lol. I enjoyed being able to share some of my memories with a friend as we drove home from yoga. She laughed when I told her that he, my sister, and I used to sing many of our conversations to each other.

I also learned that my kindergarten teacher is being inducted as well. My junior and senior kindergarten years were magical because my teacher sang almost everything to us. She had a song for everything it seemed, and rather than teach us from a blackboard, or a chart, or a desk, she taught us from her piano. I vividly recall all of us little children sitting crossed legged around her piano bench as she talked to us, read to us, and of course, played her piano as we all sang along. That same teacher also accompanied numerous choirs over the years, and taught music lessons.